1. Develop students' reading ability---fast-reading and careful-reading.

2. Get students to learn about the basic knowledge about the Olympic Games.

3. Enable students to know some important words and phrases.

Ⅲ. Teaching difficult points

1. Enable students to talk about the Olympic Games.

2. Let students learn to use comparing and contrasting when reading.

Ⅳ. Teaching approaches

1. Task-based teaching method

2. Cooperative learning

3. Discussion

V. Teaching aid

Multi-media

Ⅵ. Teaching procedures

Step 1 Warming up

The purpose of this exercise is to introduce the topic. All the students know the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, so it is easy to